The MSU women’s basketball teams’ NCAA Tournament hopes have been dimming, but the dream is still alive. The Spartans (14-9 overall, 4-8 Big Ten) are looking to stop a two-game slide when Illinois (13-7, 6-4) comes to Breslin Center Saturday. To keep its tournament hopes alive, a win is almost a necessity for MSU. “The game is very important,” junior forward Syreeta Bromfield said.
By now the air has cleared on recruiting and 19 new players have added their names to the MSU football roster for fall 2002.
The Spartan men’s basketball team may have to gun down Big-Ten-leading No. 16 Ohio State on Sunday at Breslin Center without its most effective weapon available. Sophomore guard Marcus Taylor could still be shelved for the Spartans’ (13-9 overall, 4-5 Big Ten) 1 p.m.
Women’s golf coach Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll will coach Team USA against Team Japan at the Glen Club on July 15-17 in Glenville, Ill. Slobodnik-Stoll will coach the top four female U.S.
Any Spartan suffering through a scoring drought probably can’t wait for the puck to drop tonight at Munn Ice Arena. Notre Dame (9-14-5 overall, 7-11-4 CCHA) is in town for the first time in almost two years, and just gave up 13 goals in a series against Alaska-Fairbanks. The Irish have given up an average of 3.43 goals per game - which ranks 10th in the CCHA.
John R. Buchtel High: Akron, Ohio 5-11, 170 pounds Cornerback Carlos Alexander is one of five Ohio natives coming to East Lansing next year. The cornerback was named to the All-Midwest Team by Prep Football Report. As a senior he had 48 tackles and five interceptions.
Wednesday was a big mail day for MSU head football coach Bobby Williams.Nineteen letters reached Williams’ desk signed and sealed, securing MSU’s early signees for the 2002 recruiting class.“I am very, very happy this day has come and it’s come to a close,” Williams said.
Clifton Ryan Arthur Hill High: Saginaw 6-3, 255 pounds Linebacker Ryan continues the long lineage of great athletes coming from the Saginaw Valley Conference.
Kyle Brown West Bloomfield High: West Bloomfield 6-1, 195 pounds Wide receiver Brown verbally committed in late January and said he’s looking forward to teaming up with other fast wide receivers. “It’s gonna be pretty fun,” Brown said. His senior season was cut short by a torn anterior cruciate ligament, but that didn’t stop schools from recruiting him. His junior season he rushed for 1,300 yards and passed for 300.
MSU head coach Ron Mason, a voter in the USCHO.com national poll, said he wrestled with his ballot this week after the nation’s top teams endured a weekend full of upsets. Last week’s No.
The departure of senior linebacker Josh Thornhill to the NFL leaves a big hole in the middle of the MSU football team’s defense next season.Enter a hopeful replacement for next fall - Riverside-Brookfield High (Illinois) linebacker Steve Kielp, who will sign a letter of intent to play for head coach Bobby Williams today.“I think Kielp, a top 10 player in the state of Illinois, is very important to Michigan State,” said Bill Kurelic, recruiting analyst for MidwestRecruiting.com.
MSU women’s head basketball coach Joanne P. McCallie is in the midst of doing what most coaches wouldn’t be able to do. She is turning around the women’s basketball program.
The MSU men’s basketball team will do its best to stay awake tonight against Northwestern at Welsh-Ryan Arena. “It’s kind of a lull-you-to-sleep offense,” MSU head coach Tom Izzo said of the Wildcats’ attack. Wildcats head coach Bill Carmody coached under the legendary Pete Carril at Princeton from 1982-96, and was the Tigers’ head coach until 2000.
The key ingredients to a passing attack are a quarterback with a strong arm and wide receivers with speed and height.And the Spartans didn’t have to look far for the speed and height, with three Michigan wide receivers among MSU football’s 2002 recruiting class.The 6-foot-7 Matt Trannon joins Kyle Brown and Agim Shabaj, who have both been clocked 4.4 seconds in the 40-yard dash.Brown and Trannon are ready to sign Wednesday, but Shabaj is having second thoughts.
When sophomore guard Marcus Taylor left Sunday’s game early in the second half, things looked bleak.But after the final buzzer sounded, the MSU men’s basketball team recorded more than a 67-61 win over No.
The MSU women’s basketball team’s two-game skid has nothing to do with being a bad team.According to coach Joanne P.
Trailing Ohio State 3-2 on the road with his team’s CCHA lead hanging in the balance, MSU head coach Ron Mason had to make a switch.Big, strong Buckeye centers R.J.
Call it Super Bowl FunDay, not Sunday. It’s the one day out of the year that the Sabbath (in the Christian sense) can be forgotten and the gods of the gridiron are worshiped from kickoff ’til the clock expires. Sure, during the National Football League’s regular season there are 17 weeks of play to be witnessed.
A roll of thunder and a jolt of lightning may be just what the Spartan running attack needs to fill the void left by junior running back T.J.
All it took was a lackluster second half for the MSU women’s basketball team to fall to Indiana 67-55 at Assembly Hall on Sunday. “I really don’t think our team rose to the occasion,” Spartan head coach Joanne P.